Word: upwards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This is one of those moments," wrote a Rocky Mountain pundit, "when politicians aren't sure whether the voter is apathetic or just laying for somebody." The large bloc (estimated upward of 25%) of "undecided" voters was giving pollsters and politicians the jitters. But that was only half the puzzle: those voters who came into direct contact with Jack Kennedy or Dick Nixon seemed to be impressed. Each candidate was working out a campaign style uniquely his own-and as different from the florid behavior of yesteryear as farm subsidies are from free silver...
...case, he marks another area on his map (see diagram). If the areas overlap, the overlap has the two necessary kinds of violent shear. It is therefore apt to be full of wing-wracking CAT. The troubled air is usually only a few thousand feet thick, and it slopes upward, its high end toward a slow-moving air mass that is being jostled by the speedy jet stream...
Working his way upward in a hurry...
Laurence Harvey is an unknown talent agent, clawing his way upward--a sleazy, smooth-talking operator, always looking after number one and expecting everyone else to do the same; he plays a expecting everyone else to do the same; he plays a more sophisticated gentleman than his Room at the Top Midlander. The world, he tells us, is not a playground, but a jungle, and his use of others for his own betterment demonstrates it. His performance is entertaining, masterful, and quite real enough to accentuate the unattractiveness of his surroundings...
...fields, but only during the monsoon, when the dung cannot be dried; the rest of the time he collects it in great mounds and uses it for fuel. "We know this is wasteful," he said, "but there is nothing else to burn." Joining his palms and gazing reverently upward, he murmured...